ST PETERSBURG: Belgium beat England 2-0 in the World Cup third-place play-off on Saturday to safe their best-ever finish at a World Cup and send Gareth Southgate's facet home with a second instantly loss.
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France will face Croatia in Sunday's ultimate at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
A fourth-minute function from Thomas Meunier and an 82nd minute Eden Hazard strike earned Belgium the victory and the third-place, which improves on their previous perfect efficiency of a fourth-place finish in 1986.
England were on best for many of the second half however with captain Harry Kane having a look drained, Belgium's greater sharpness in the ultimate third proved decisive.
Meunier's function got here after Romelu Lukaku swung the ball out left to Nacer Chadli who burst down the wing and slipped the ball around the face of the function and the midfielder expectantly slotted past Jordan Pickford.
The function approach Belgium have had 10 different goalscorers at this World Cup -- equalling the report set by means of France in 1982 and Italy in 2006.
While England supervisor Gareth Southgate made five changes to the facet which lost to Croatia, Belgium boss Roberto Martinez made just two switches.
Meunier returned from suspension and Youri Tielemans given a get started ahead of Maroune Fellaini in midfield with the Belgians fielding their strong front 3 of Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard.
De Bruyne should have made it 2-0 in the 12th minute when the ball found him at the again put up after a slip-up from John Stones, however his poorly struck shot was easily handled by means of Pickford.
Kane, the event's best scorer with six goals, had a possibility when set up by means of Raheem Sterling in the 24th minute however was off-balance as he screwed his shot huge.
Southgate brought on Marcus Rashford for Sterling and Jesse Lingard for Danny Rose at the ruin and the exchange worked smartly, with England smartly on best in the second half.
Toby Alderweireld was compelled to transparent an Eric Dier effort off his line at full stretch after a neat change between the Tottenham midfielder and Rashford ended with a chip over Belgian keeper Thibaut Courtois.
Dier after which Harry Maguire both headed huge from promising positions, whilst at the different end Meunier went close to a second with a powerful volley that Pickford did smartly to avoid wasting.
But the sport was wrapped up when De Bruyne burst from midfield and slipped the ball through to Hazard, who glided past Phil Jones and fired into the bottom nook.
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France will face Croatia in Sunday's ultimate at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
A fourth-minute function from Thomas Meunier and an 82nd minute Eden Hazard strike earned Belgium the victory and the third-place, which improves on their previous perfect efficiency of a fourth-place finish in 1986.
England were on best for many of the second half however with captain Harry Kane having a look drained, Belgium's greater sharpness in the ultimate third proved decisive.
Meunier's function got here after Romelu Lukaku swung the ball out left to Nacer Chadli who burst down the wing and slipped the ball around the face of the function and the midfielder expectantly slotted past Jordan Pickford.
The function approach Belgium have had 10 different goalscorers at this World Cup -- equalling the report set by means of France in 1982 and Italy in 2006.
While England supervisor Gareth Southgate made five changes to the facet which lost to Croatia, Belgium boss Roberto Martinez made just two switches.
Meunier returned from suspension and Youri Tielemans given a get started ahead of Maroune Fellaini in midfield with the Belgians fielding their strong front 3 of Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard.
De Bruyne should have made it 2-0 in the 12th minute when the ball found him at the again put up after a slip-up from John Stones, however his poorly struck shot was easily handled by means of Pickford.
Kane, the event's best scorer with six goals, had a possibility when set up by means of Raheem Sterling in the 24th minute however was off-balance as he screwed his shot huge.
Southgate brought on Marcus Rashford for Sterling and Jesse Lingard for Danny Rose at the ruin and the exchange worked smartly, with England smartly on best in the second half.
Toby Alderweireld was compelled to transparent an Eric Dier effort off his line at full stretch after a neat change between the Tottenham midfielder and Rashford ended with a chip over Belgian keeper Thibaut Courtois.
Dier after which Harry Maguire both headed huge from promising positions, whilst at the different end Meunier went close to a second with a powerful volley that Pickford did smartly to avoid wasting.
But the sport was wrapped up when De Bruyne burst from midfield and slipped the ball through to Hazard, who glided past Phil Jones and fired into the bottom nook.
Belgium third in World Cup after 2-0 win over England
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